Saturday, January 3, 2015

Pinecrest is thriving! and getting better every day. More active. More Loving. More beautiful. A community is growing here. A community who leaves their everyday lives behind and only brings the best parts of themselves. It's more than just camping and cook-outs... it's Caring friends! Pinecrest Evolves.

Monday, November 24, 2014

Hello All: Good to see you here! Glad you found us. Take a look around here and see some of the old stuff that has gone on at Pinecrest Retreat, then go to our new blog (that is incorporated into the new website) to learn about all the stuff going on today and in the future! Thank you for being a friend!

Monday, January 13, 2014

creativity, connection, being there. here's another great talk by brene brown that is as challenging as it is inspiring. she reminds us how important it is to be true ourselves: to create and express who we are.

Tuesday, January 7, 2014

The Pinecrest Team keeps growing. As Pinecrest evolves, we are approaching everything in a fresh new way. Introducing Iska! Iska is the new Camp Host at Pinecrest. Her job is to be around to make sure everything is secure and be available to community members. She is the owner of, and will be available at, the Huge Black Bus across from the A-Frame. Instead of having a employees living in the A-frame House in the center of the park, we will be using this building for the main office, a retreat center, and hopefully a certified kitchen. Jill and Wilson will also be around as they continue to make improvements to the park. Judy will be back next season at the Clubhouse. And Timo will be hosting special events and other community projects. When you see someone new zooming around in a golf cart, be sure to flag them down and introduce yourself. Just like the old camp song says: "The more we get together, The happier we'll be."

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California's Vintage Trailer Capital:

"Welcome Home!"

Pinecrest Resort is America's foremost location for vintage travel trailers and those who love them. A growing community of creative individuals who enjoy spending time in nature, and with one other: hiking, swimming, gardening, grilling, roasting marsh-mellows over a camp fire, participating in the art of conversation and best of all sharing in the preservation of the great American travel trailers from by-gone days.

Tucked into a tree-shaded canyon high in the Cuyamaca Mountains an hour’s drive from downtown San Diego, is the homebase for nearly 100 vintage travel trailers and motorhomes. Call it a yacht club for RVs, where owners have permanent spaces to park their rigs and set up for outdoor living. You can spend as much or as little time as you want with your RV. You can entertain friends and family, cocoon yourself with a book, even meet some new friends who love old trailers as much as you do.

Visit Pinecrest and stay in one of our Vintage Rental Travel Trailers! Go to PinecrestRetreat.com for details!

Viva Vintage Travel Trailers!

Restoring Vintage Trailers is an American Tradition.

The Evolution is YOU!

Pinecrest is a gathering place for like-minded creative people who value the ideas of conservation, preservation, restoration and good taste. These concepts are epitomized by the vintage travel trailers Pinecresters own and enjoy. There is a special element of "recycled eco-chic" which is at large in the park, and with that sensibility there is also an emerging community.

At Pinecrest, living well doesn't mean having a lot of money. Living well means cooking with friends, spending time in nature, having room to breathe and perhaps an occasional moment of tranquility. But more that that, Pinecrest is a work in progress. Blending old ideas with new: solar power, camp fires, swimming, yoga, napping, music, board games and conversation are all a part of the mix.

Pinecrest is unique because it is a "members only" retreat, with room to spread out and the freedom to make your space your own. It has one of the largest, cleanest solar-heated pools in all of Southern California. Pinecrest is a safe place, where members may come to find personal solitude or bring their friends and family to enjoy quality time together.

But best of all Pinecrest is an evolving community, and the evolution is you!

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Pinecrest's colorful history:

Pinecrest got its start in the early 1960s as a retreat for the workers of General Dynamics and Convair. The early site holders at Pinecrest brought in an array of trailers—some fresh from the dealer, others from by-gone eras. The unique history of Pinecrest means there are many hidden gems nestled here, and you’ll sometimes find a classic trailer bounded by the trees that have grown up around it.

In the seventies, Pinecrest became privately owned and managed by Stan and Dian Cornette, who lovingly maintained the park and drew in a more diverse group of campers, reaching out to new generations.

Stan and Dian retired in December 2005, and new owners Frank Spevacek and Kathleen Rosenow have brought a new spirit to the park, building on its history as they shape its future. Kathleen and Frank are dedicated to making Pinecrest a living lesson in “Green” technology. They are currently in the process of bringing a ecologically savvy sensibility to the park, including solar technology, modernized water systems, a new shade pavilion for the pool area, and other innovations that will use recycled materials and sustainable technologies.

The “golden years” of travel trailers came after the aviation surge of World War II, and many iconic travel trailers, like the Airstream and the Spartans, trace their lineage back to the war effort. Companies that had built tens of thousands of aircraft in order to win the war converted to making travel trailer in order to celebrate our victory in the post-war era, in the ultimate expression of “swords into plowshares.” Many of these trailer models had a hopeful, futuristic style and used “space age” technology to promote the feeling of a boundless future. At Pinecrest, there is a unique mixture of old and new, retro and techno, rustic and wrangled, vintage and vibrant. Pinecrest is where yesterday’s future meets the vitality of today.